Guatemalan Army

The Guatemalan Army, formally the National Army of Guatemala, is the military of Guatemala. The Guatemalan Army was equipped with United States weaponry ever since the 1921 coup of Jose Maria Orellana, and the Guatemalan Army was used by Jorge Ubico to put down agrarian workers and to enforce martial law during the 1930s and 1940s and then by dictators in the 1960s-early 1990s to fight against communist rebels in the Guatemalan Civil War. In 2004, the army had 15,500 troops, using weaponry from both the former Eastern Bloc and Western Bloc, including American, Soviet, and Israeli weapons.